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Hampton Institute student photograph album

Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 16525

Content Description This collection contains a photograph album of a student from Hampton Institute. The original photo album, measuring 7' x 10' with 24 pages, contains 44 black and white photographs of an unidentified young Black woman, approximately 20 years old, as well as cut newspaper images and a photo postcard. She is seen at Hampton Institute, a historically Black University, in Hampton, Virginia, posing in front of school buildings, clowning around with friends, and preparing for graduation. Also...

Dates: undated

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Piney Pond School photograph

Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 16508

Content Description

This collection contains a gelatin silver photograph of about fifty Black students, parents, and faculty in front of a rustic schoolhouse. About two-thirds of the participants are students with the rest either faculty or parents. Caption on label reads: "La Crosse, Va. Piney Pond School April 3, 1914."

Dates: 3 April 1914

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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